Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

100 years later, they're still down there.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.